E-books for Education, Action and Adventure
When Lisa Fittipaldi went blind at the age of forty-seven, she descended into a freefall of anger and denial that lasted for two years. In this moving memoir, she paints a vivid picture of the perceptual and emotional darkness that accompanied her vision loss, and her arduous journey back into the sighted world through mastery of the principles of art and color. The challenge of a child's watercolor set, thrown down like a gauntlet by her frustrated husband, opened the door to a new life.
Knitting Across America With a Big Poodle is an amazing and inspirational story about a novice knitter who travels across America learning to knit. In the process she becomes involved with fellow knitters, discovering the people, places, patterns and interpersonal relationships that make knitters and knitting unique. Not the traditional how to book, this book details the vignettes of life of knitters, both humorous and sad, and from quirky to whimsical. Follow the friendships that have grown.
There are more than 80 recognized autoimmune diseases. Few books emphasize the individual and their relationship to having a disease like Scleroderma or Mixed Connective Tissue Disorder. The interviews with these 12 amazing women, each with a different autoimmune disease, tells their unique stories of how they have gone beyond the basics in living with an autoimmune disease. Each story is insightful, dramatic and realistic.